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POPULATION GROWING

| Liberal Game Laws

| Fail To S top Moose

sy ED SIMON
' Canadian Press Staff Writer

He's a big, ungainly hunk of animal with a face
not even a mother could love. His disposition is less
than charming, especially when his intentions are
amorous, ween tenet eee

If that seems like a contra-
diction, it is generally in char-
aeter with the status of the
moose as a game animal, The
harder he’s hunted, the more he
thrives,

Small wonder Canadian hunt-
ers excuse his social deficiencies.
Unlike other kings of the north-
land such as the caribou and the
brown and grizzly bears, old
Alces Americana is fighting the
battle of survival and winning,
OVER-ALL INCREASE

Almost without exception, the!
seven provinces where moose
are plentiful enough to permit Quebce is the only province to
an open season report a steady | report a lower kill this year,
upward trend in the numbers of | largely because its season was
hunters, kills and animals. still, put back a couple of weeks to
on the hoof. avoid rutting mating time when

The estimate of Dr. W. J. K. yas are easier to call and kill
Harkness, Ontario chief of fish and meaner. Newfoundland,
and wildlife, is typical. He re-| gaskatehewan and Alberta. es-
ports the current kill “far be-! timate an average season's bag.
low any danger point—in a good | In the three other provinces,
deal of the province we could} more moose fell to hunters’

shoot ae oe lumbia where! guns than in precious years.
the estimated 1957 bag of 7,00; The cross-country picture:
moose would make it the hunt- BRITISH COLUMBIA
er’s paradise of the Dominion. Marked increase in harvest
biologist Jim Hatter of the pro-| during last five years with ex-
vincial. game commission says! tended seasons. Both cows and
more liberal gunning regulations| bulls) may be shot. Estimated
have helped as much as lucky|1957 kill between 500 and 800:
breaks over the last few winters! more than the previous year’s |
to send the moose population | 6.500 |

soaring. WE '
“It's just as wrong to under | . NEW OUNDLAND |
harvest as it is to overharvest,”'! Estimated kill 4.000 in season,
Dr. Hatter says |tanging up to 312 months. Har-|
NEED SUFFICIENT FOOD i vest about equal to annual
“If moose are too plentiful for | growth dn accessible regions, ;
their range, there won't. be) well behind in remote areas.

_ enough food to go around and | QUEBEC
~ they'll die froma combination of} 4113 killed in 10-day season,
starvation, parasites and dis- | down from 1,756 in 1956 when:

. Season coincided with the rut. |
1940s when we had a string of!

tough winters.” ONTARIO
»-- For an animal as big as a Bstimated 1957 kill about 5,000,
horse—some weigh up to 1,200, up slightly from the previous
pounds — and an appetite toi year which showed a sharp in-
match, proper and sufficient! crease over 1954 and 1955. There
feed is a perpetual problem, |has been a general increase in
Newfoundland is among the; the length of the season and |
provinces where wildlife experts; areas open to hunters.
too much of «good thine. The, MANITOBA
aa « oS 415. “od . soe
“estimated 1957 Kill of 4,000 could} | Suet emerging from a rigid
easily be stretched to 6.000, they |p erore 1955, In 1956, 707 animals|
say. There is a particular need} ~<"' taken. almost one per lie |
for thinning of the herd in re-{ Vere taken, a n Svan P |
mote interior cence. Figures for 1957 not yet:

sections, a com- available
plaint echoed by Ontario and; °'?" ’
Saskatchewan,

SASKATCHEWAN
The moose’s aversion to hu- 1957 bag not expected to be:
man society is his greatest pro- |greater than 4,000 killed in 1956.,

and carry the bulk and power
of a lacomotive at full steam, he
is not considered unduly hard
to kill. The difficulty is getting
into his stamping grounds.

HUNTERS ENCOURAGED

Saskatchewan, for instance,
cut its non-resident licence fee
for $100 by half to encourage
hunters into out - of - the - way
spots. Newfoundland also has
special interior seasons design-
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tection, because although he, Sharp increases in kill recorded NO STAGE FRIGHT ;
may sport an antler big enough} in 1955 and more so in 1956 when “When I mace my first speech.

hunting periods included the rut; I was amazed that T wasn’t ner-
vous at all. Yet, when I make a ;

TV or stage appearance, I shake
all over. Perhaps it was because

Expects about the same kill as/1 wasn't giving a performance. I
1956 when 4,500 were taken, The | pledged $27,000,000 for the relief
season is designecl for an un-jof Palestine refugees, which wus
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In 1956, the Canadian Red
Cross had an expenditure of
$118,308 for emergency assist-
ance to victims of 1,360 minor
disasters through your generous
support of the Canadian Red
Cross Society.

for the first time.
ALBERTA

molested rut,

to hang the family washing on

jing then acting, because you were

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imovies on television.

(I always went out of my way ‘o

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COCKTAIL DUNKERS — Mermaids, not pink elephants, are
viewed by elbow benders in a cocktail lounge at Portland,
Ore., which features a water ballet in lieu of a floor show.
Patrons in the lounge at Piluso’s Restaurant view the under-
water procecdings through the sides of the glass tank, while
diners on the upper level see the surface performance,

MOVIE COLUMN

UN Beats Acting,
lrene Dunn Finds

By BOB THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD (AP)—"It was much more excit-.
taking part in real:
and important drama.” OS .
This was Irene Dunne’s reac- country to make . a
tion to her recent experience as’ “I carne away greatly impres- ;
a United States delegate to the: Sed with the work the UN does
United Nations General Assem-i}N its limited field—and it does
bly. Some of her impressions: {have certain limits. I think we’
“The language of diplomacy: averted a serious situation in
is very careful and polite. Your) Syria. which might have been
opponents can sound just us mMuUch worse without a forum to
pleasant as can be while they|hear it...
are quietly cutting your throat.) “Abd Im much impressed with
“I think it is a healthy thing; {Me Work the UN agencies do.
for layman to serve on the as- Tm especially interested in!

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complish things... othe Gread disease jaws with a

: : . five-cent injection nieillin.

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May, one of the delegates came oreanization . .

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up and said. ‘oh, I hate you: to] askKech her her resus»

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drei Gromyko said that he had lasted ae to Gray the suver-:
PALE Py c ails . Ssuvere
seen me on TV... ‘tpi? epics.” meee,
wp die ada Ve aoe

“I found Gromyko very cov-_
dial—all of the Russians, in fact.’

Afore than 1.222.600 Canadians:
Pove reecived transfusions of
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jatbout his unreasonahle atti
‘ner to make impossible pl:
)self has seen all the ecards.
' Several correspondents have |
pointed oul reeently that there |
‘is one faeet of his personality !
which I have not touched upon |
or, at best, have not stressed suf - |
ficenlly, They refer to the plain
fact that Mr. Heinsite is a bore. |
Yes, even when he ds right!
[which isn't too often), he is!
i tiresome,
In today’s deal Mr. Abel won,
the first trick with the king of:
spades, then shifted to the ten!
of clubs. Miss Brash won with !
the jack of clubs and ruffed a:
spade in dummy. She then|
cashed the ace of diarnonds, ruf-
fed a diamond in her hand and |
‘ruffed her last spade on the ;
jboard. She lost only one spade}
and two trump tricks.
Mr, Heinsite pgomptly |
nounced that Mr, Abel should
| have led the nine of hearts at

Province To Ask
High Benefits

VICTORIA @— Premier Ben-
nett says British Columbia will
[insist on 50 per cent or more of
downstream benefits aceruing |
from the  projeeted Columbia:
River power development.

But he told the legislature
Wednesday that no steps can he

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trick two, Actually this would
not beat the hand because
while Mr, Abe! would win one
more spade trick, he would also
win one less (rump trick,

Thinking hard now, Mr. Hein-

 

tract could have

ment settles the question
benefits with
United Stites.

Mr. Bennett said in the bud-

ly the kine of hearts at
: two.

He was. right.
would play the ten

of |
the :
Miss
from

get debate that the projected ‘board and win in her hand with
Wenner-Gren hydro develop- ‘the ace. Now if she ruffed a
ment on the Peace River in/spade with the queen of hearts,

 

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If she

Mr. Abel's jack and

northern B.C. will give the pro-
‘hearts would both win.

vince “a most powerful lever’ in

‘another round of trumps, she
‘would lose a trump trick and
.three spades.

Mr. Heinsite was so happy at

Randolph Hurding (CCF-Kasl-
criticized Mr. Ben-
netts apparent previous insist-
ence on 20 per cent of the down- |
stream benefits--power gener-
ated om the American side as a

play that he held up the game

result of damming the Columbia for minutes while he explained |
The other plavers restlessly |

in Canada. Mr. Harding said B.C, it.
should eet 50 per eent or more tried to get on to the next deal.
Of the additional power, i “Your story fascinates me to

“it wi be 50 per cent or bet- the point of nausea.” remarked

fer tr Bennet interjected. |Miss Brash.
“We Hooct the Peat deal possi - “T have a suggestion,” said Mr.
ble, Dale. “We're all just sitting
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yers With Explanation

| In discussing’ Mr. Heinsite | have talked mainly

site finally noticed that the con-
been defeated :
if his partner had led specifieal- :
trick :

Brash
the |

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fused the queen of hearts to pull

‘having discovered this “obvious” :

Monday, March 3, 1953

— Wa'sh

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